Well the eLearning Guild Annual Gathering for 2009 has once again not disappointed. I’ve learned so many great new things here today. I find it amazing every year that I seem to learn more from just networking and speaking to people over the lunch hour and at demo booths than some of the actual sessions.
I found a flyer in the lobby about Captain Smiley (which I’ll insert a picture of once I return home) and went off to visit the Articulate booth. Turned out to be one of the best half hours of the day. I listened to Tom Kuhlmann and learned some amazing tricks. Simple enough tricks that will take me a few times to get right, but really neat ways to bring even more into your courses.
I found out through the dinner discussion board that the Shuttle was going to launch. Then looking at information about the best place to view it over the lunch hour, I found Nasa’s Twitter link. Later in the afternoon, sure enough a tweet from Nasa that the launch had be cancelled. I’m loving Twitter more and more.
My lunch discussions also gave me a few brainstorms about how to get more buy in for social tools from the CEO and upper management. One included getting our physicians more interested in using Twitter to collaborate and consult with one another on cases. Sounds like a great idea and if you can get physician buy-in then you’re definitely part way there.
I did my breakfast byte session this morning, which wasn’t exactly what I envisioned it to be and I’m unsure if I gave the participants any more than they already knew. However, I really enjoyed the experience and I think it has better prepared me for tomorrow’s session.
I’m looking very forward to the rest of the Gathering and all it has to offer. Oh and a big shout out to my many new Twitter Friends. Tweeple? Twiends? you get the idea. Oh and follow http://twitter.com/jzurovchak he’s got great tweets going out during each of the sessions he’s sitting in on.